After clearing Kazakhstan Immigration with ease we were on the road again cycling on roads that were definitely a lot bumpier and had no shoulder like their Chinese counterparts were still well above average. We took our first break about an hour into riding under some trees beside a few country houses, which by the [...]

Crossing international borders by air is usually an efficient process. Just line up, hand your passport over, smile politely and wait for your exit or entry stamp. Oh, were it that simple to cross by land. Our trip across the frontier at Khorgos took most of the day and a most of my patience. When [...]

Now that we are well out of China there will be no more need to download and install software to watch videos on our site. All future videos of our trip will now be available on YouTube. This also means that future videos can be uploaded at a better quality. All past videos will also [...]

Arriving in a big city where you don’t speak the language and have bikes and a lot of gear to drag around is a real hassle. We were fortunate to meet a bunch of the Kazakhstan Peace Corps on our first morning here. Their kindness and help meant that we were able to move into [...]

We set out from Korea fully knowing that our travel plans would have to be fluid as they are dependent on world politics, country stability and visas. I thought I’d take a moment to let you know what we have talked about lately. Initially we had planned to go along the Southern section of the [...]